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Fri May 31, 2019, 08:07 PM May 2019

Leaked Navy emails show top officers struggling with how to handle a former governor ensnared in sca

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Source: Washington Post

Leaked Navy emails show top officers struggling with how to handle a former governor ensnared in scandal

By Dan Lamothe May 31 at 12:53 PM

The year was just beginning when a Trump administration official contacted the Navy with a question about former Missouri governor Eric Greitens, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who had resigned from office amid a sexual misconduct scandal and criminal investigation.

Joseph D. Kernan, a retired admiral and Navy SEAL, knew Greitens from their time in the military. Now the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for intelligence, Kernan wanted to know whether there was a way in which Greitens could return to military life, according to documents and emails obtained by The Washington Post.

It was not a simple question for the service.

Greitens, 45, admitted to having an extramarital affair but denied accusations that he coerced the woman involved into a sexual act and threatened to publicize a photo of her partially nude if she ever went public with their relationship.

The charges were dismissed amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, and Greitens had a decorated past that included hunting al-Qaeda in combat, founding the veterans nonprofit the Mission Continues and publishing a best-selling book that discussed his service.

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